UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016

On Oct. 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. This marked the start of the most fraught 13 days of the 20th Century, the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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High altitude aerial reconnaissance photograph of the San Cristobal Number 2 Medium Range Ballistic Missile launch site on Oct. 14, 1962. File Photo by Department of Defense/UPI

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs, collected by a U-2 spy plane two days earlier, had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. This would mark the start of the most fraught 13 days of the 20th Century, the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In 1972, a light plane carrying U.S. House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana, fellow Democratic Rep. Nick Begich of Alaska and his aide Russell Brown and pilot Don Jonz was reported missing on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau in Alaska. The plane was never found.